Secure collar button



July 24, 1923.

F. x. LIST SECURE COLLAR BUTTON INVENTOR ATTORNEY Filed Oct. 24, 1922Patented duly 24L, 1%23.

FRANK XAVIEE LIST, OF NEW YORK, N. Y.

SECURE COLLAR BUTTUN.

Application filed October To aZZ whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, FRANK Iiiiivinn Lis'r, citizen of the United States,and resident of New York, in the county of Bronx and State of New York,have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Secure CollarButtons, of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to collar buttons, and the main object is toprovide an article as mentioned which has a pair of spaced apart disksforming base, the gap between said disks being receptive of the collarband.

Another object is to provide a collar button which can be readilymounted in place, and which is so constructed than when mounted itcannot be displaced or lost. The usual type of collar button is easilydislodged from a button hole and consequently often causes greatinconvenience to the wearer.

These and other objects will become ap parent in the description below,in which characters of reference refer to like-named parts in thedrawing.

Referring briefly to the drawing, Figure 1 is a front elevational viewof the preferred type of collar button.

Figure 2 is a side elevational View of the same. I

Figure 3 is a top plan view of Figure 1.

Figure 4c is a sectional elevational view of the preferred type ofcollar button, taken on line 44 of Figure 3.

Figure 5 is a top plan view of the modified type of collar button.

Figure 6 is an illustration showing the preferred type of collar buttonpartially mounted in place.

Describing the drawing in detail, the numeral 10 represents a sphericalhead upon a circular shank 11, said head forming a retaining means forlinen collars when the latter are mounted in place thereon. The collarbutton in present day use is inserted into a button hole and can easilybe dislodged owing to the spherical head being of insufiicient area forresisting the tendency of slipping thru the button-hole. In the collarbutton herein disclosed, a pair of annular disks 12 and 13 are providedat the base, said disks being separated by a gap 14 in which the collarband 20 is received. In order to insert the collar band in place betweenthe disks, means are provided where by the band can pass over either oneof the 1922. Serial No. 596,689.

disks. As the disks are designed to be of larger diameter than thegreatest width of the button hole, it is obvious that said button holecannot be spread and the button insorted.

in order to mount the collar button in place, the upper disk 13 isprovided with an eccentric circular cut-out 15. The cut-out has a slot16, leading thru the edge of the disk. Turned lips 17 and 18 are formedon the sides of said slot and are rounded in order to give the leastamount of resistance to passage of the collar band. Lip 17 on one sideof the channel is bent upward, forming an entering guide, and lip 18 isbent downward, forming an emerging guide for the collar band. Theperipheral edges 19 of the adjacent faces of said disks are curvedtoward each other and are intended to slightly compress the collar band20 when the latter is mounted in place between the disks.

In Figure 5 the modified type of collar button is shown, in which thecut-out is dispensed with and a spirally curved slot 21 is used in itsstead, said slot being open at the periphery of the disk, and the lip 22at the outer end of the slot is curved upwardly, forming an enteringguide.

In mounting the collar cutton in place at the collar band, the head 10is pushed thru the button hole 23. Said head is then grasped and rotatedtoward the lip 17. As the latter is hem sligl'itly outward, the buttonhole slit will be opened or spread apart, whence lip 17 is guided intothe button hole. As rotation in the same direction progresses, the upperdisk finally will pass entirely thru the button hole, and collar bandwill lie in the gap 1 1- between the adjacent faces of the disks 12 and13. In removing the collar button, the head 10 is oppositely rotated andthe emerging lip 18 will guide the collar band outward until the entireband is displaced from the gap 1 1.

I claim 1. A device of the class described comprising an upper and lowerdisk rigidly united in spaced-apart relation, said upper disk having aneccentric circular cutout therein, a shank on said upper disk adapted topass thru a button hole, and means for guiding said button hole slitthru the cutout into the space between the disks.

2. A device of the class described comprising a pair of adjacent disksseparated by a gap, a shank extending from the up a collar band into thegap when the said lip per disk, the latter having an eccentric cirisrotated toward a button hole slit.

cular cut-out therein, a slot extending from Signed at New York, in thecounty of said cut-0ut thru the edge of the disk, lips New York andState of New York, this 5 formed by the sides of said slot and turned7th day of October, A. D. 1922.

respectively downwardly and upwardly, the

upwardly bent lip being adapted to guide FRANK XAVIER LIST.

